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Mountain club OXYGEN

MTB Oxygen is a non-profit organization with a mission to promote sports, recreation, healthy lifestyle and alternative tourism in the Republic of Macedonia. We are founded in 1997 in Skopje. We are a member of Macedoniаn Cycling Federation and with our cycling team we have won awards for the best mountain biking cycling club in Macedonia for 2015, 2016 and 2017. We have Macedonian mtb cycling champions in all categories Cadets, Juniors, Elites female and male and they are all guided and coached by Amar Njemcevic Level 2 UCI MTB coach from Bosnia. Besides Macedonian cycling league we continuously compete in many international races. The development of mountain biking in Macedonia inevitably contributed to the rise of the, so called, active and alternative tourism. MTB Oxygen has been a dynamic supporter of the development of active and alternative tourism in Republic of Macedonia over the past 15 years. We have marked thousands of trails with cooperation of local municipalities and we were actively involved in a number of seminars and workshops regarding development of sports and active tourism within no government and government institutions.

As an active member of the tourism cluster within the USAID project MCA, MTB Oxygen promote Macedonian tourist capacities to the foreign delegates from Vermont, USA, within the event VERMOUNT OUTREACH. Furthermore, we were closely involved in the presentation of the Macedonian capacities to 25 world tour operators during their visit to Macedonia. We promoted the Macedonian possibilities for active and alternative tourism to the biggest German and Russian tour operators and we visited several European tourism fairs. MTB Oxygen together with RICHARD BANGS ADVENTURES - YAHOO promoted Macedonia and its capacities for active tourism through one of the largest INTERNET search engines Yahoo. We were hosts to the French citizens Nathalie Cuche - reporter, Eric Beallet - photographer, Bruno Laval - bike tester and Olivier Durbec – doctor, who were doing a report on Macedonia for one of the most famous European magazines for alternative tourism from Switzerland. We partner with a number of travel agencies in the Republic of Macedonia. We are an active member and a supporter of http://www.exploringmacedonia.com.

During the past years we have organized numerous seminars and educational classes on promoting cycling and healthy lifestyle among youngsters. We have partnered and we have been part of many events organized by local municipalities and other educational institutions on various subjects. We have large experience in organisation not only seminars and educational events but also professional events with national and international unions thus confirming our knowledge and experience in organizing such events